Wednesday, May 12, 2004 Having confirmed once and for all that I will never know the touch of another human being with this purchase., I find myself troubled. You remember the bit in Transformers: the Movie where Optimus Prime turns up and kicks botty, while the soft rock stylings of Stan Bush tell us just how cool Optimus Prime is. As if we needed to be convinced. Well, the first verse of "The Touch", the Stan Bush in question, goes: After all is said and done, You've never walked, you've never won, You're a winner Before going on to point out that you're at your best when the going gets tough, and furthermore that, having been put to the test, it has never been enough. All well and good. Of course, Optimus Prime has both walked and run, but one can forgive a bit of poetic license. Except... That's not even internally consistent, is it? I mean, never walking and never running doesn't make you a winner. It makes you a jogger. In certain situations, like the hundred metres, it actually makes you a loser. And even a jogger would surely have to walk sometimes (while accelerating to jogging speed, or decelerating to sleeping sleep), and also run (when late for things). So, on reflection, Stan Bush should be singing: After all is said and done, You've never walked, you've never run, You're an armchair. Or something to that effect. Which would be just prime...       Venusberg.org finds Blogger very attractive...

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